Hosted on MSN

Windows 11's memory compression is often overlooked, but you might want to enable it

Windows 11 has a habit of doing things quietly in the background and then getting blamed for them later. Memory compression is one of those features. It sounds like a gimmick and immediately gets ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Freeing Up Near-Memory Capacity For Cache Using Compression Techniques In A Flat Hybrid-Memory Architecture

A technical paper titled “HMComp: Extending Near-Memory Capacity using Compression in Hybrid Memory” was published by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and ZeroPoint Technologies.
Electronic Design

Content-Addressable Memory Speeds Up Lossless Compression

Two broad categories of compression are currently in use. In lossy compression, data is intentionally discarded. As a result, the decompression of the data doesn't exactly match the original data.
Electronic Design

Hardware Compression Works at the Memory Cache Level

How lossless data compression can reduce memory and power requirements. How ZeroPoint’s compression technology differs from the competition. One can never have enough memory, and one way to get more ...

New KV cache compaction technique cuts LLM memory 50x without accuracy loss

MIT researchers developed Attention Matching, a KV cache compaction technique that compresses LLM memory by 50x in seconds — ...
TechSpot

Startup aims to tackle AI bottlenecks with novel memory compression techniques

Forward-looking: It's no secret that generative AI demands staggering computational power and memory bandwidth, making it a costly endeavor that only the wealthiest players can afford to compete in.